Learning Outcomes

Grossman School of Business makes it a priority to prepare our students for real-world expectations. That is why it is so important that we maintain a detailed list of expected knowledge, skills, and abilities that our students should gain during their academic experience.

Learning Goals by Program

Undergraduate Program
Body

Competency 1: Professional skills

Ability to:

  • Communicate informatively and persuasively through written, oral or visual modes
  • Collaborate effectively to analyze business performance

Competency 2: Technical skills

Ability to analyze business performance by:

  • Acquiring, synthesizing, and interpreting data
  • Applying foundational business concepts

Competency 3: Thematic application skills

Ability to apply and integrate professional and technical skills in one or more of the themes:

  • Sustainable business
  • Global business
  • Entrepreneurship

Master of Accountancy (MAcc) Program
Body

Competency 1: Ethical awareness

  • 1.1 Ability to explain ethical considerations relevant to business dilemmas using an established framework

Competency 2: Critical thinking skills

  • 2.1 Ability to research and properly cite authoritative sources for a complex accounting issue
  • 2.2 Ability to apply authoritative resources to address a complex accounting issue

Competency 3: Professional skills

  • 3.1 Ability to demonstrate effective written, oral, and visual communication skills
  • 3.2 Ability to collaborate in a team

Competency 4: Data analysis skills

  • 4.1 Ability to perform standard data visualization, interpret the data, and communicate patterns and information that exist within a dataset

Sustainable Innovation MBA (SI-MBA) Program
Body

Competency 1: Leading a sustainable business 

  • 1.1 Ability to incorporate a global multi-stakeholder framework into managerial decision making
  • 1.2 Ability to address business challenges by integrating economic, social, governance and environmental spheres

Competency 2: Innovative skills

  • 2.1 Ability to address business challenges by innovating within existing or new organizations 

Competency 3: Critical thinking skills

  • 3.1 Ability to solve complex business challenges by acquiring, interpreting and synthesizing data
  • 3.2 Ability to understand how traditional financial decision-making frameworks can lead to suboptimal societal outcomes 

Competency 4: Professional skills

  • 4.1 Ability to demonstrate effective written, oral and visual communication skills
  • 4.2 Ability to collaborate effectively
  • 4.3 Ability to understand the impact of one’s actions and behaviors on others